A new patch is now being applied to Diablo III, to update Blizzard's action/RPG sequel to version 1.0.2.9749 with some fixes with the update Blizzard promised before they begin implementing balance changes. The game may remain offline for another hour or more as part of the patching process. Here are the oddly organized patch notes:Diablo III Patch 1.0.2 - v.1.0.2.9749

Classes

Monk

Active Skills

Serenity

Skill Rune - Tranquility

Duration of immunity granted to nearby allies from crowd control effects reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second

Bug Fixes
For a full list of documented game and service bugs, please review the Known Issues sticky located in the Bug Report forum.

General

Players should no longer receive an "Error 14009" when logging in

The "Select a Hero" menu will now also display the difficulty level for each character

Several speed improvements have been made to the streaming downloader

Achievements

All players in a party should now receive "Till Death Do Us Part" even if they donít have Haedrig Eamon as their active follower

Acts

Act IV

Witch Doctors should no longer receive an error if they kill a Shadow Clone with a Damage-Over-Time (DoT) skill after it's launched a Firebomb but before it's reached its target

Auction House

The auction log in the Completed tab will now display a player's activity (bids, buyouts, sales, etc) in the proper order

When placing a new bid over a previous bid on the same auction, players will now be provided with the correct warning message: "Raising your maximum bid on an Auction you are already winning raises your current bid to just above your previous maximum bid. Are you sure you want to continue?"

Players will now receive an error message if they attempt to purchase an item after the 50 item limit has been reached in the Completed tab

The "Physical Damage" Preferred Stats option for rings has been renamed to "Bonus Minimum Physical Damage"

The "All Damage" Preferred Stats option for weapons and armor has been removed and replaced with bonuses of specific damage types

Items which have been purchased from a vendor and equipped by the player can now be sold on the Auction House

Listing items on the Auction House from a different character than the one currently selected should no longer cause item display issues

Battle.net

The public chat list will now sort alphabetically

Classes

Witch Doctor

Spirit Vessel (Passive) no longer clears debuffs when using waypoints or changing equipment

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Bhruic wrote on May 30, 2012, 13:25:What I don't understand is why the people are targeting Diablo 3? I mean, we have the "experts" in the thread saying that everyone who got hacked had keyloggers or equivalent installed on their computers. So if that's the case, why would a hacker settle for Diablo 3? Wouldn't they go after your bank login? Your Paypal account? You know, something they could use to get real money? As fun as getting Diablo 3 gold must be, since no one knows how much it'll sell for, and considering how much money Blizzard takes from every deal, it seems like a really poor way to get paid.

Battle.net accounts (including WOW, D2, D3, etc) are worth a fair bit of cash, there's a huge demand so the goods are easy to unload and the hackers face little to no risk of prosecution. Foreign countries have come a long way in terms of working with banks/authorities when it comes to dealing with compromised email/bank/etc logins. Gaming stuff is a much safer target and you don't have to worry about a trail because no one is coming after you anyway.

Some people around here won't like this but the truth is that the gaming industry is well known as a soft target to hackers, that's why there has been a large rash of them over the past two years. It's a relatively young industry where there is almost no compliance with security/data access standards that other industries have. Hell, a lot of it is outsourced even.